BBC Accused Of Airing Incendiary Claim That Women Put In Danger By Low Traffic Neighborhoods – forbes.com

Carlton Reid
The Science and Environment Unit of BBC News has been accused of spreading falsehoods in a TV report on Low Traffic Neighborhoods (LTNs) broadcast on March 17.
The report is the “most-watched video on the BBC website at the moment,” said a TV news anchor at the end of BBC London News last night, and “rightly so,” he added.
“It’s neighbors fighting neighbors over the issue of Low Traffic Neighborhoods,” the anchor said.
“You need to see it to believe it.”
Indeed, in several ways, the report was unbelievable, including, says one parliamentarian, because it appears to breach BBC impartiality rules.
Lord Berkeley has written to the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, claiming that the report failed to meet the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines.
Among several other claims, a “contributor made a statement that a taxi driver could not access her property and this went unchallenged,” wrote Lord Berkeley, patron of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling and Walking.
“All residential properties remain accessible, albeit via a slightly longer route,” he stated.